Sound Judgment: Selected Essays

by Leppert,Richard

• ISBN13: 9780754626831
• ISBN10: 0754626830
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The essays in Sound Judgment span the full career of Richard Leppert, from his earliest to work that appears here for the first time, on subjects drawn from early modernity to the present concerning music both popular and classical, European and North American. Noted for his path-breaking interdisciplinary scholarship on music and visual culture, the collection includes key essays on music's visualization in art practices in virtually all visual media, including film. The fourteen essays comprising this volume demonstrate Leppert's many contributions to critical musicology, particularly in the areas of aesthetics as well as social and intellectual history, all of it grounded in a heterodox body of critical and cultural theory, with the work of Theodor W. Adorno particularly noteworthy. The collection is preceded by an introduction in which Leppert traces his intellectual development, defined in large part by the social, cultural, and political upheavals of the 1960s and their aftermath both in the academy and in society at large.

Author Biography

Richard Leppert is Regents Professor and Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Minnesota, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Aurality

On reading Adorno hearing Schubert

Opera, aesthetic violence, and the imposition of modernity

Fitzcarraldo

'Everybody's lonesome for somebody': age, the body, and experience in the music of Hank Williams (co-authored with George Lipsitz)

Gender sonics: the voice of Patsy Cline

Visuality

The prodigal son

Teniers and Ghezzi

Concert in a House: musical iconography and musical thought

Imagery, musical confrontation and cultural difference in early 18th-century London

Male agony: awakening conscience

The musician of the imagination

Practice

Music teachers of upper-class amateur musicians in 18th-century England

Music and the body: dance, power, submission

Utopia

Nature and exile

Adorno, Mahler and the appropriation of kitsch

Four hands, once again [by Theodor W. Adorno, translated by Jonathan Wipplinger], four hands, three hearts: a commentary

Music 'pushed to the edge of existence' (Adorno, listening, and the question of hope)

Index

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